Rebecca Ferguson has announced plans for a 14-date tour across the UK and Ireland next year, ahead of her performance on X Factor this weekend.

X Factor star Rebecca Ferguson will tour the UK and Ireland next year (Picture: Xposurephotos.com)

Ferguson waited longer than her X Factor colleagues to take to the stage, choosing to take the time to co-write all the songs on her album and refusing to accept songs from other writers, but now the 2010 runner-up is set to tour after releasing her new material

Rebecca to release her first solo single Nothing’s Real But Love on Monday, with debut album Heaven hitting the shops on December 5.

Now Ferguson has announced plans for her first headline tour, starting at Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall in February before concluding in March at London’s Theatre Royal Drury Lane â currently home to Shrek The Musical.